Kerclément dolmen

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Kerclément dolmen

The Dolmen of Kerclément (also called Dolmen of Er-Roc'h ) is located west of the hamlet Kerclément, east of Belz in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

The damaged Dolmen of Kerclément consists of four bearing stones, a side plate and the capstone.

A gold spiral with three holes was discovered during the excavation. It was taken to a museum in Le Mans .

Nearby are the Dolmen of Kerlutu , Dolmen of Kerguéran and Dolmen of Kerhuen and the Menhir of Vilionec .

See also

literature

  • Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
  • Pierre-Roland Giot: Prehistory in Brittany. Menhirs and dolmens. Editions d'Art Jos le Doaré, Chateaulin 1991, ISBN 2-85543-076-3 .
  • Philippe Gouézin: Les Mégalithes du Morbihan intérieur. Des Landes de Lanvaux au nord du département , Collection Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne, Institut culturel de Bretagne, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie-Préhistoire (UPR 403 CNRS), Université de Rennes I, 1994.
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Ker is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".

Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 8 "  N , 3 ° 8 ′ 46.4"  W.